C#m7   F#7   G#7    A7    E

[Beat only]
Yo, wus' up?
This is G-Love coming at you live  out here from California,
Even though I'm Philly born and bred

And I got my man Jack Johnson in the studio today,
we just got out of the surf
My man, Jack, tell 'em what time it is

[Intro]
C#m7     F#7               A7     G#7
            uh, come on

[Refrain]
C#m7
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
F#7
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
A7
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing
    G#7
But here comes the music

[Verse]
C#m7
Bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of
   F#7
So many people, so many problems, so many reasons
        A7
To buy another round, drink it down
                          G#7
Just another night on the town

         C#m7
With the big man, money man, better than the other man
F#7
He got the plan with the million dollar give a damn
A7
When nobody understands, he'll become a smaller man
    G#7
The bright lights keep flashing man the women keep on dancing

[Chorus]
         C#m7                          G#7
With the clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A7            F#7
They pick me up when I'm down   Yeah, yeah
          C#m7                         G#7
The Rodeo Clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A7           F#7
They pick me up when I'm down   yeah yeah

[Verse]
    C#m7
The disco ball spinning, all the music and the women and
    F#7
The shots of Tequila, man they'll say that they need ya
    A7                                    G#7
But what they really need,     is just a little room to breath

      C#m7
Teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands
    F#7
Her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things
    A7
Symbolic of change but the thing that is strange
            G#7
Is that the changes occurred, and now she's just a part of

[Chorus]
    C#m7                      G#7
the herd    Yeah, yeah, yeah
                       A7             F#7
Man I thought that you heard   Yeah, yeah
               C#m7                      G#7
The changes occurred    Yeah, yeah, yeah
                   A7           F#7
Just a part of the herd   yeah yeah

[Verse]
C#m7
Lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground
F#7
   You walk by look at him but he can't look at you, yeah
A7
   You might feel pity but he only feels the ground because-uh
G#7
  You understand moods, but he only knows let down

C#m7
   By the corner there's another one
F#7
Reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, well
A7
   You try to live but he's done trying
G#7
   Not dead but definitely

[Chorus]
C#m7     G#7                        A7             F#7
dying       With the rest of the clowns    Yeah, yeah
C#m7  G#7                       A7              F#7
         With the rest of the clowns     Yeah yeah

[Jam]
E  G#7  A7   F#7  x3
E  G#7  A7   A7

C#m7  G#7  A7  F#7 x2

[Chorus]
           C#m7                         G#7
The rodeo clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A7           F#7
They pick me up when I'm down   Yeah, yeah
          C#m7                         G#7
The Rodeo Clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah
                         A7          F#7
They pick me up when I'm down  yeah yeah


[Refrain]
C#m7
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah
F#7
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight
A7
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing
    G#7
But here comes the music